Material de Lectura. Elena Garro

by Elena Garro

Periodista, guionista, narradora y dramaturga, Elena Garro (1911-1998) es una de las escritoras más trascendentes de la historia literaria de México y de la literatura hispanoamericana del siglo xx. Fue autora de títulos emblemáticos como Los recuerdos del porvenir, La semana de colores (del que procede el cuento publicado en este volumen), Un hogar sólido, Felipe Ángeles, La mudanza, Y Matarazo no llamó y Memorias de España 1937, textos, todos, que exigen más que la atención, la complicidad y el compromiso de sus lectoras y lectores. Figura polémica del México moderno, Elena Garro tuvo una vida azarosa digna de alguno de sus cuentos.

49 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Elena Garro was a Mexican author, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, short story writer, and novelist. She has been described as one of the pioneers and an early leading figure of the Magical Realism movement, though she rejected this affiliation. Alongside the works of Juan Rulfo, her first three books: Un hogar sólido (1958), Los Recuerdos del Porvenir (1963), and La Semana de Colores (1964), are considered to be among the earliest examples of Magical Realism in Latin American literature. Garro's writing, despite being mostly fictional prose, borrowed heavily from poetry and its literary elements. Author and biographer Patricia Rosas Lopategui has described Garro's style as "an attempt to rescue the use of everyday language in the form of poetry". Her style has also been compared to that of french writers like Georges Schehadé, Jean Genet, as well as Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco, due to the surreal nature of her stories. A close friend of Albert Camus, her works were also heavily influenced by his style and philosophy. She was the recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 1996.
Her tumultuos marriage with writer Octavio Paz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature, has been the subject of much scrutiny. Garro herself would describe the relationship as "filled with forbiddance, resentments, and rancour for not making each other happy". Despite the hostilities, they are considered among the most talented couple of writers to emerge during the Latin American literary boom of the twentieth century.
Garro is seen as one of the unsung figures of the boom; her legacy was influenced, in part, by her rejection of Magical Realism as she considered the term "a cheap marketing label". Contemporary historians and literary biographers consider her work as seminal and view her as having been as important as figures like Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and others.

Reviews

[Malena · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quiero saber todo acerca de Elena Garro.

[ricardo]

Me encantó el ensayo de Cristina Rivera Garza; conociendo a Elena Garro.

[Ro Delgadillo Martinez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Elena Garro muestra un dominio del tiempo, de la atmósfera y de la belleza de las palabras.

[Agustín Ávila C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maravilla de narración. Increíble ensayo de Rivera Garza

[Teresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

En realidad leí esta reedición con nota introductoria de Cristina Rivera Garza http://www.libros.unam.mx/elena-garro...
¿Antes era más fácil añadir libros a esta cosa, no?
Anyway <3 <3 <3

[Stephany Torres · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me gustó muchísimo

[Sophhloo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Increible su cuento “La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas”. Grande Elena 💜

[Angélica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dos ensayos alrededor de uno de mis cuentos favoritos de Elena Garro “La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas”.

El de Cristina Rivera Garza gira a a través del simbolismo del vestido blanco de Laura y le da un reflexion desde el género sobre la traición y la culpa. Excelente.

El segundo la introducción es de Marco Aurelio Carballo a la primera edición, que alaba el cuento y lo que me agrada aquí es más el chisme sobre una supuesta novela en la Elena está trabajando en ese momento, y es una novela sobre la revolución rusa, específicamente sobre la hija del zar, María, en el que demuestra que sigue viva y es Greta Garbo jaja suena súper interesante.

Al final viene el cuento, que es un deleite.